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A fhort Defcription of the Northern Indians, alfo | 
a farther Account of their Country, Manufac- 
tures, Cuftoms, &c. 
An account of the pees and Sons es the Northeral 
Indians. 7 hey poffe/s a great deal of art and cuns 
ning.—Are very guilty of fraud when in their pow= 
er, and generally exact more for their furrs than 
any other tribe of Indians.—Always diffatisfied, yet 
‘have their good qualities.—The men in general seas 
lous of their wives.—Their marriages.—Girls al. 
ways betrothed when children, and their reafons for 
it.— Great care and confinement of young girls from 
the age of eight or nine years old.—Divorces com- 
mon among thofe people.—The women are lefs proe 
lific than in warmer countries.—Remarkable piece 
of fuperftition obferved by the women at particular 
periods.—Their art in making it an excufe for a” 
temporary feparation from their hufbands on any lit. 
tle quarrel.—Reckoned very unclean on thofe occaf- | 
ons.—The Northern Indians frequently, for the | 
want of firing, are obliged to eat their meat raw.— 
Some through neceffity obliged to boil it in veffels made | 
of the rind of the birch-tree.—A remarkable difh | 
among thofe people.—The young animals always cut 
out of their dams eaten, and accounted a great delt- 
cacy.—The parts of generation of all animals eat by 
the 
